La Cumbre , Argentina

Crossed the border into Argentina without problems , flat country riding ... boring desert like landscape , farmland , corn , wheat , rice in places .I was following a semi about to pass and it had a blow out on the back tire scared the shit out of me and rubber was flying... wow so cool to watch and I did not get hit ever better ! I arriver in Cordoba city late asked at the gas station if I could set up my tent at the back in a field , no problem . After I everything set up andf was about to go to sleep another guys came over and said it was too Dangerous ... so I packed up my gear again and left in the dark . Now I entered Cordoba in the dark .... shit well the only hotel I could find was a love hotel , what a dive ! Noisy , smelly and the guy kept phoning my room for some reason , he asked for 100 peso more after I paid him 100 , then he gave it back , Could not figure that on out !

Was glad to be out of the city and roode north to enter the small puebla of La Cumbre the mecca of paragling in Argentina , home of Andi Hediger and distribtor of Advance paragliders . No flying for 3 days , wind was from the wrong way , nice shop set up at the airport for repairs . Now I am in San Juan , wine country north of Mendoza ! Heading north to get some altitude to start acclimatising for Aconcagua. More later .........

I'm in Argentina now ....

Hi everyone ... well after about 400 hrs of travel, I made it to Uruguay safe. No bags lost, no hang ups.... oppps, yes the plane leaving Toronto was 3 hrs late so instead of leaving at 10pm they left at 1am ... yes, Air Canada ! Anyways does't matter I had a 8 hrs lay over in Brasil .

So went out to Punte del Este after Montevideo. My bike was in the shop and they were working on it when I arrived , how nice is that ! What service... tuned up the bike , put in new shocks, heavier ones for Cheri's big butt !! Whom will be joining me in Mendoza in after the climb .

So after spending 3 days in a Hostel with the kids, I was ready to leave .... did I used to drink that much . They were doing tequilla shots at 2pm in the afternoon and didn't stop untill 4am .... ahhhhh.

Well I hit the road and I must say yahhoooo it sure feels good to be back on the bike " yo soy libre " !

Nothing reall spectacular about the route really flat , I had 1 night camping where is poured out while I was camping ! Thunder , lightning and heavy rain , my tent was floating I had everything piled on my air matress water was inside the tent . Everthing was wet and mudddy ... north of where I was they had hail the size of baseballs.. so I was lucky, lots of big trees down everwhere .